THE USE OF BLOOD ANALYSIS IN THE INTEGRATED PIG PRODUCTION CHAIN

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Research on Integrated Quality Control (IQC) in animal production has shown that the analysis of blood of animals at slaughter can provide very useful information in relation to animal health, public health or both. This can contribute to better surveillance of animal health and to the quality and safety of meat throughout the production chain. In particular blood analysis can supply useful information for meat inspection on the slaughterline. The overall objective of the proposal is to create tools to provide better guarantees to the consumer in whole Europe on the quality and safety of meat by :

- the development of systems of integrated quality control in the meat and livestock sector; - the development of tools to modernise the current meat inspections procedures.

This is of crucial importance for Europe in order to allow the free movement of meat within the union and to be able to compete with other partners such as Japan and USA within the Global Market. It may also have a strong and positive influence on the public perception of meat products.